Yours (unusually) cheerfully, Gordon: Vere Gordon Childe's letters to R.B.K Stevenson
Alice Stevenson
This contribution complements an article published in Antiquity 85, issue 330, December 2011. Here we publish facsimiles of letters and postcards written by Vere Gordon Childe to R.B.K. Stevenson between 1945 and 1956, now in the possession of Alice Stevenson. For a transcript of the letters and postcards, please see the journal article, linked below:
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Letter 1, dated 3 February 1945. Air Letter posted in Edinburgh on 4 February 1945.
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Letter 2, sent from University of Edinburgh, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology on 27 July 1946.
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Letter 3, sent from Brufani Palace Hôtel in Perugia on 29 March 1953.
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Letter 4, sent from London on 4 November 1956.
Postcard 1, sent from Perugia in March 1953.
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Postcard 2, sent from Moscow in September 1953.
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Postcard 3, sent from Budapest in October 1955.
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Postcard 4, sent from Palermo in April 1956.
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Authors
- Alice Stevenson
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
(Email: alice.stevenson@prm.ox.ac.uk)
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